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How did southern Blacks respond to the challenges of living in the late nineteenth-century South? How did the place of African Americans in southern politics change after 1877? How and why did segregation become a norm in American society? What spaces were necessary for African Americans to create for themselves?
 * Essential Questions:**


 * Common Core Standards:**


 * Student Objectives:**


 * Key Terms and People:**
 * Disfranchisement || The Grandfather Clause ||
 * Segregation || Jim Crow ||
 * Apartheid || The Liberian Exodus ||
 * The Great Migration || Sharecroppers ||
 * Convict Lease System || Social Darwinism ||
 * Talented Tenth || Buffalo Soldiers ||
 * Rough Riders || The Brownsville Affair ||
 * Spanish-American War || Philippine Insurrection ||
 * NAACP & NACW || The Urban League ||
 * Anna Julia Cooper || Carter G. Woodson ||
 * Fraternities & Sororities || Race Riots of the 1900s ||
 * Ku Klux Klan || UNIA ||
 * Harlem Renaissance ||  ||

Ida B. Wells Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Dubois Marcus Garvey Langston Hughes Claude McKay Zora Neale Hurston
 * Activities and Assessments:**

White Man's Burden Brown Man's Burden I Hear America Singing I, Too The Birth of A Nation
 * Additional Readings:**